reflect! You might be appropriating that culture - and that's not cool.) So if you're wearing, using, or exploiting a culture as a performance or a "trend". (In case you are confused about the phrase, here's the Cliffs Notes: No one's culture is a costume. She said, "I thought it was interesting to think of that sort of intersectionality of a white artist in hip-hop, and cultural appropriation, and how white people can be involved in black liberation struggles." Jezebel interviewed Jamila Woods, a collaborator on "White Privilege II," about the idea of addressing cultural appropriation.
guess what? It may be complicated, it may make some of us have to own things that we've done wrong, but as white people, we need to acknowledge it. But Macklemore - even as he grapples with what it means to be a popular white rapper, gaining success in a genre created by black and brown people - makes the point that. Every time you turn around, someone is being accused of it and people of color are having to explain what exactly it is. The term cultural appropriation is everywhere these days. "You've exploited and stolen the music, the moment The magic, the passion, the fashion, you toy with The culture was never yours to make better." It's time for white people to acknowledge cultural appropriation. But in any case, acknowledging that discomfort is normal is a good reminder to us folks who want to show up for the people and movements we care about. Just because I feel awkward, that doesn't mean I should stop!" There are a lot of different ways to positively affect the cause. The more you talk about it, the more prone others are to say: "Oh, OK. Lori.)Īwkward pioneer-hat-Batman-PJs moments? GIFs via Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Why is this so important to note? Well, Ben (Macklemore's actual name) is a seasoned activist.īut even for him there's still some discomfort, some second-guessing, some "am I doing this right?"-ness about taking his place as an ally and supporting the movements that he believes are important and are led by non-white people. "Pulled into the parking lot, parked it Zipped up my parka, joined the procession of marchers In my head like, 'Is this awkward? Should I even be here marching?'" Awkwardness is totally normal if you're white and protesting alongside Black Lives Matter activists and other black liberation movements.
(You can listen to it as you read if you like!) 1. Regardless of what you think about Macklemore as an artist, or how wary you were to even listen to the song, here are nine times in the lyrics when T-R-U-T-H got served. "īut now that the really important debate about the fact that he did the song at all has cooled off, I found myself sad that some of the really important ideas in the lyrics may have gotten lost in the sauce. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. He told Rolling Stone: "It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. Needless to say, as with most conversations around race - particularly in such a crazy moment in American history - the song was quite controversial.
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